Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.
ALAN TURINGThe idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.
More Alan Turing Quotes
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I’m afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan.
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Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I’m after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
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My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
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Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child’s? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.
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The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.
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A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.
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Codes are a puzzle. A game, just like any other game.
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A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
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A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
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No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
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